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Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French.

Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt

Date:: 1801

Credit: Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| ice, the Greeks of the country-places make on the thrufhes a fuccefsful attack. _Thofe birds all retire into the groves of orange and ~ lemon trees, to pafs the night; their purfuers, with deceitful lights, earry alarm into the inidft of thefe fleeping flocks; imagining that it is day, the thruthes, quit the foliage, the charming afylum which a cruel {nare con- verts into a'fcene of death; they are feen flying round the torches, and they are knocked on the head with large wooden. battledores. In this manner the peafants fill facks with -them, and carry them to the rriaatnts of the. towns. Although the barilte diforder, with the nature of which we are yet fo little ac- quainted, I mean the hydrophobia, is un- known in warmer countries of the Easz,’ I have been told that it makes its appear- ance, but rather feldom indeed, in the Ifland of Canpra. Dapper alfo mentions that this ifland has been, frequently afflicted by mad‘ dogs, which have from time to time — incommoded the inhabitants*. The remedy — which the King of Prussra purchafed, and _ caufed to be publifhed in 1777, is there — * Defcription de sri 4 folio, page 462. - known$